Three and a half days later, someone murdered 20 people and wounded 26 others in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart. Fifteen hours after that, someone murdered 9 people and wounded at least 26 others in a Dayton, Ohio, nightlife district.
There is no agreed-upon definition of a mass shooting. If you use the FBI's definition of 4 or more killed, not including the shooter, we have had 22 mass shootings in the nearly 31 weeks (so far) this year. If you use the Gun Violence Archive's definition of 4 or more killed or wounded, not including the shooter, we've had 251 mass shootings in 216 days.
Are mass shooters mentally ill, or are they just reeking with hatred? Are legislators who refuse to even consider approaches that have reduced gun violence in other countries mentally ill, or just incredibly corrupt? Are people who keep voting for NRA shills and fomenters of hate mentally ill, or just dangerously deceived? Are people who are genuinely mentally ill getting a bad rap by association with these other people?
Jesus wept.
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The biggest problem is that no RATIONAL discussion of this issue is being allowed or promoted on a national scale. even the national statistics being bandied about are skewed. It is a compound complex of issues Involves the weapons themselves, societal and racial issues, health issues,, fiscal issues, and of course political issues.
The whole concatenation has been so weaponized by the politically invested factions from both extremes that there is no middle ground for rational discussion and negotiation.
Much like most of the other major issues our nation is faced with; they are all being mongered for political party advantages and individual politicians with more interest in power and profit than serving their constituency and
WE THE PEOPLE.
And Jesus Wept, indeed!
To say that mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders is not the cause for criminal behaviors is too broad.
Short answer is that most mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders is not the cause for criminal behaviors, but long answer is that mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders is the cause for criminal behaviors, but it depends on what mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders we are talking about.
The problem is that there are a lot of mental health and neurodevelopental disorders and each mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders are not the same to each other.
Statistically, most people with mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders are more likely to be victims than being perpetrators. There are however small-subgroup of people with mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders that commit crimes.
There are however some mental disorders that is related to criminal behaviors, it includes specific command hallucinations, specific delusions of paranoid and grandiose themes, and Erotomania, specific pathological jealousy , but criminal behaviors is more related to Distributive, Impulsive Control and Conduct Disorders, especially Antisocial Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and specific Paraphilic Disorders. About Bipolar Disorder, criminal behaviors is more associated with Distributive, Impulsive Control and Conduct Disorders, and specific Paraphilic Disorders. Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder includes impulsively and risky behaviors.
About Communication Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder, criminal behaviors in Communication Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder is mostly related to lack of social skills, not out of maliciousness or sadism.
Sources:
https://www.mentalhealth.gov/basics/mental-health-myths-facts
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK396481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537064/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16485220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5742412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK562279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819598/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17032961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554425/
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